Minister for Finance Brian Cowen must provide a minimum of €10m to fund suicide prevention initiatives in the next Budget, a Government Watchdog has claimed.

THE Government has been accused of failing to deliver on mental health commitments by a coalition of campaign groups.

Helping those suffering from mental illness must be made a priority by the next Government, campaigners will insist today.

PSYCHIATRIC patients kept in hospitals against their will have been granted the right to independent review of their detention under a radical overhaul of the mental health system.

A RADICAL overhaul of mental health services that will see the closure of the country’s remaining mental hospitals and the money from their sale spent on developing community-based mental health care will begin this year.

WE would like to highlight the stigma that individuals with mental ill health continue to experience in Ireland.

THE Government has been accused of shamefully neglecting mentally ill people in a damning report by Amnesty International.

MORE than half of mentally-ill patients receive no diagnosis and are ignorant of the side-effects of medication, according to a survey.